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AGAIN! because biden was also demented. back to back dementia champions!

btw, a demented king isnt necessarily a bad thing as long as the establishment knows how to deal with it. farmer george was mad as a hatter for the second half of his life and his son was an enormous failson, and it didnt matter, the UK kept doing UK things perfectly fine and britannia ruled the waves

i growered

our ultra-militarized societies push everyone through intensive mandatory training in 24h clocks by virtue of presenting the tv programme in 24h format.

after his first 2/3 win, orban did rig the system in the winner's favor (which worked out nicely for him until it didnt).

but yeah, he was able to stay in power this long partly because of election rule shenanigans, partly because he took immediately control of as much of the media as he could, but in large part because none of the so-called opposition parties seemed to try anything.

• they didnt try to understand why and how orban won, they just scolded voters for voting wrong
• they didnt try to go outside the cities and talk to rural voters and win them over
• they didnt try doing something between elections, just came out every 4 years like a bear after winter and then went back to sleep

no wonder that the actual force to defeat fidesz came from disaffected ex-fidesz people. the older opposition parties are still useless and dazed.

i think orban went right not for any wider european reason or any capital-related reason. he just saw that the so-called "left" was saturated, and the right was open, so he moved to the emptier pasture. pure opportunism.

i think the two major jewish political organizations in hungary are the zionist liberal mazsihisz and orban's pet ultra-zionist chabad-lubavitch jews. i see no chance this dude would break with either.

look at this list: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leggyakoribb_magyar_csal%C3%A1dnevek_list%C3%A1ja

magyar is #35, there are ~20k people with that last name here. also, out of that list, at least the following are ethnicity-based last names: toth, horvath, nemeth, olah, racz, torok, magyar, orosz, lengyel, szekely.

this used to be a pretty multi-ethnic region (multiple kinds of white people) until the 19th/20th century flattened it into nation states.

again, perfectly normal last name in hungary, it only sounds weird if you translate it.

excoriated the establishment

he was mao era, and he excoriated the establishment. which establishment? you decide!

she didnt leave you lol, she went out to get her chisel sharpened so she could finish your coffin

i read player of games, loved it, read consider phlebas and that was the last culture book i ever read (except for re-reading player of games like twice)

inability

weird way to phrase "complete unwillingness to even try, and shooting themselves in the dick instead"